S. Austin Allibone, comp. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. 1880.
Saint Augustine
Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which after the first or second blow may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
Saint Augustine.
Saint Augustine.
Saint Augustine.